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Overhead Spine Stretch For The Office Worker
Overhead Spine Stretch For The Office Worker In the image below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy and Corporate Work Health Australia demonstrating a seated overhead spine stretch. This is a simple yet effective stretch that can be...
Hamstring Stretch For The Office Worker
Hamstring Stretch For The Office Worker In the image below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy and Corporate Work Health Australia demonstrating a standing hamstring stretch. This is a simple stretch that requires just a chair (office...
Seated Spine Stretch For The Office Worker
Seated Spine Stretch For The Office Worker In the image below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy and Corporate Work Health Australia demonstrating a seated spine stretch that is great for relieving tension associated with prolonged...
Seated Hip Stretch For The Office Worker
Seated Hip Stretch For The Office Worker In the image below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy and Corporate Work Health Australia demonstrating a seated hip stretch. The aim of this exercise is to stretch the gluteal and piriformis...
Watson Bar Chest Supported Row
Watson Bar Chest Supported Row In the video and image below you will see exercise physiologist Yujin Lim of Optimal Health demonstrating a chest supported row with the new Watson Bar at Elite Sports Performance. This is a great bar for performing chest supported rows...
The Yoak Overhead Shoulder Press
The Yoak Overhead Shoulder Press In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrating a yoak overhead shoulder press. The yoak bar is a speciality bar that allows for external loads (dumbbells, kettlbells, weight plates)...
Romanian Deadlift For Building Posterior Chain Strength
Romanian Deadlift For Building Posterior Chain Strength In the image below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients performing a romanian deadlift. The romanian deadlift involves a partial bent knee (you can also perform this with a stiff leg - straight...
Box Squat – The Hip Dominant Squat
Box Squat - The Hip Dominant Squat The box squat is one of my favourite squat exercises for a number of reasons. Some of these include that it is a great exercise for all ages (unloaded or loaded), it is great for those individuals who have had issues with the knee...
Overhead Reverse Lunge
Overhead Reverse Lunge In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrating a loaded overhead reverse lunge. This is a great exercise for those wishing to work on overhead shoulder positioning as well as trunk stiffness...
Birddog with upper limb resistance
Birddog with upper limb resistance In the video below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients performing a birddog exercise (focusing on establishing trunk stability whilst moving arm and leg - which involves moving from 4 points of ground contact to 2...
Kneeling Hip Hinge Pallof Press
Kneeling Hip Hinge Pallof Press In the video below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients demonstrating a kneeling hip hinge with pallof press. This exercise was prescribed to the client in an attempt to start training the client on a hip hinge as well...
Does Your Osteopath Understand Exercise Prescription?
Does Your Osteopath Understand Exercise Prescription? Since graduating as an osteopath in 2003 I have worked across many different clinical environments across multiple countries and it still continues to amaze me that many of the patients that present to Principle...